^ You might run into issues with that. The mSATA to IDE adapter has an iDE to SATA bridge chip. The T43 board itself already has one. Having two of those chips in series is known to result in problems like:

- drive not detected
- timeout issues (drive works, then stops being detected after some time, resulting in the system hanging)
- speed reduced to 33 MB/s

Medyo OT- we still have an 11 year old acer 2920z working really well. The core duo cpu was swapped out with a core 2 duo from another broken laptop. Aside from the acer chip thing replaced before and dead cdrom and dead batteries already replaced from online- it works great as a spare laptop for web browsing, videos some documents etc. Runs ubuntu and win 7 though it likely can do win 10 too.

When that laptop model was first released- it was one of the more affordable less than 14in laptop. It does have some sentimental value to us so we keep it.